ACTIVISM UPDATE: Responses Show WaPo Is Hearing From Its Critics
Washington Post editors may not be backing down, but they are hearing you.
Jim Naureckas
Chris Matthews Garbles It All for You
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews used his post-election appearance on Morning Joe to demonstrate just how unhelpful political commentary can be.
Media Blame Left for Trump Victory—Rather Than Their Own Fear-Based Business Model
Coverage of issues in this election season dovetailed well with the Trump campaign’s lines of attack against the Biden/Harris administration.
White Men Get Short End of Stick—in NYT Chart, if Not in Reality
Not only are white men without college degrees not uniquely disadvantaged, they’re actually better paid than any other demographic without a college degree.
What Did ABC Think Voters Needed to Hear From Harris and Trump?
ABC asked some surprisingly pointed questions about perhaps the most important issue in this election—the preservation of democratic elections themselves.
Crime Is Way Down—But NYT Won’t Stop Telling Voters to Worry About Crime
In a rational world, voters would be aware that crime went down sharply during the Biden/Harris administration.
NYT Editor Denies His Paper’s Role in Setting the Agenda It Reports On
Kahn is committed to denying that the Times—the most agenda-setting US news outlet—has any say over what issues are considered important.
Divestment Can’t Work, Media Tell Protesters—Even Though It Has
Divestment would be dangerous, self-defeating and impossible, is what we’re hearing from corporate media. Why are students even bothering?
ACTION ALERT: NYT’s War on Words: Avoid ‘Palestine,’ ‘Genocide,’ ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
A New York Times memo seemed designed to dampen criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza and to reinforce the Israeli narrative of the conflict.
LA Times Shortchanges Readers With Deficient Explanation for Rising Food Prices
Corporate greed is conspicuously missing from LA Times columnist Steve Lopez’s list of reasons that prices go up.
ACTION ALERT: Friedman’s Vermin Analogies Echo Ugly Pro-Genocide Propaganda
Thomas Friedman compared the targets of US bombs to vermin, the sort of metaphor historically used to justify genocide.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Misrepresents Zionism’s Opponents as Anti-Jewish Bigots
The effort to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable critics of Israel painted supporters of equal rights as antisemitic bigots.
The Need for a Less Hypocritical Center at the New York Times
Centrists love to decry “both sides”—yet somehow it’s almost always the left that earns the bulk of their contempt.
Legacy Admissions Are Actually the Opposite of Affirmative Action
These headlines’ play on “affirmative action” reflects the right wing’s use of the term to mean “unfair advantage.”
Underexposure Exposed
If you want people to think a country resistant to US leadership is a festering doomscape, just underexpose the hell out of your photographs.
ACTION ALERT: False NYT Spy Claim on Iran Nukes Needs Correction
Please tell the New York Times to correct its false claim that there is no doubt that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Book Review in Denial on Japanese Persecution in World War II
The insistence that not all Japanese people were banned from California severely damages the credibility of the New York Times.
Can False Balance Kill You? It Sure Can
You know what would actually benefit politics in the US? A media system that was willing to point out who was causing demonstrable problems.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Celebrates Neo-Nazi Azov Unit
Three years ago, describing an Australian white supremacist charged with massacring 49 people in New Zealand, the New York Times (3/15/19) wrote: “On his flak jacket was a symbol commonly used by the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization.” What a difference a war makes! A Times story (10/4/22) in the paper’s Ukraine […]
